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  • DFI
    Auger Pressure Grouted Displacement Piles: An Acceptable Alternative

    By Osama El-Fiky

    There are many types of deep foundations currently being used in the San Francisco Bay Area, one of the most common being driven precast, prestressed concrete (PC/PS) piles. PC/PS piles are frequently

    Jan 1, 2002

  • DFI
    Argosy Casino Expansion: Open Cell Sheet Pile® Harbor Project

    By Michael Lane

    With the success of their existing casino operation on the Ohio River in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, the Indiana Gaming Co., LP planned a major expansion of the current facilities. This expansion includes

    Jan 1, 2008

  • DFI
    Unknown Bridge Foundation Investigation With Nondestructive Methods ?The Combined Parallel Seismic/Seismic Cone Penetrometer Method

    By Larry D. Olson

    Research, hardware development, and field testing have been conducted on systems to allow easy and accurate determination of both foundation tip depth as well as the properties of the soils at and abo

    Jan 1, 2007

  • DFI
    Numerical Analyses Of Pile Load Testing And Pile Base Grouting

    By Wen-Chieh Cheng

    Two bored piles with base grouting are loaded axially and the results are used to compare with numerical analyses. One compressive pile with a diameter of 2 meters is drilled through clay deposit and

    Jan 1, 2006

  • DFI
    Construction Of A Pre-Founded Anchored Wall, Monitoring Of Execution Based On The Eurocode 7 Observation Method, And Taking Account Of The Transmission Of Seismic Forces In The Retaining Structures Towards The Buildings Structure

    By Denis Huber

    The technical assessment of the final works on the "Stéphany Palace" project at Menton in France's Alpes-Maritimes region shows the importance of daily project monitoring based on the observation

    Jan 1, 2002

  • DFI
    Nyct's 207th St Yard Floodwall

    By Christian L. Escalera

    Over seven years ago, on October 29, 2012, Superstorm Sandy pummeled the Northeast of the United States inflicting heavy damage on New York City Transit’s (NYCT) system. Since then, NYCT has been meth

  • DFI
    Bearing Capacity Of Pile By Curve-Fitting Method ? Synopsis

    By Z. Q. Zhou

    It is the first worke in design of pile foundation to determine the carring capacity of single pile, and a static loading on site is considered to be the lost derect and reliable way. All values P and

    Jan 1, 2010

  • DFI
    Positive Cut-Off Wall in Indian Dam – A New Technique for Difficult Geology

    By Steni Stefani, Sanjay Dave

    "This paper describes an innovative method, used for the first time in India, for the construction of a 1.0metre-thick positive plastic concrete cut-off wall (CoW) at the upstream toe of the dam at th

    Jan 1, 2017

  • DFI
    Design and Construction of the Thames Water Lee Tunnel Shafts, London

    By Sivilay Sayavong, David Puller, Julian Gatward, David Hard, Martin Stanley

    "AbstractThe Thames Water Tideway Tunnels programme involves the upgrade of London’s combined sewer and storm water system. The first section is the Lee Tunnel between the Beckton Sewage Treatment Wor

    Jan 1, 2014

  • DFI
    Providing External Confinement to Precast Prestressed Pile Shafts to Improve Ductility - ·Experimental Observations

    By Andrew Budek

    "Analytical and experimental work has shown that achieving the full inelastic lateral capacity of a pile may require the formation of a plastic hinge below ground level, in the pile shaft. The confini

    Jan 1, 2005

  • DFI
    Excavation Support At The Capitol Visitor Center In Washington DC

    By Harald Ludwig

    In 2002, excavation support work commenced on the Capitol Visitor Center project located adjacent to the nation?s Capitol building in Washington, D.C. The outlying work (Slurry Wall Work at Main Site

    Jan 1, 2006

  • DFI
    Foundation Base Material Strength Assessment for Drilled Pipe Piles using Force and Displacement Data

    By Patrick J. Hannigan, Geir Veslegard, Frank Rausche, Rozbeh B. Moghaddam

    A common type of deep foundation used in Norway to support bridge structures is the drilled pipe piles (piles) filled with concrete reinforcement after installation. The standard installation practice

    Jan 1, 2018

  • DFI
    Strengthening Of A Cardboard Machine Foundation In Kemi, Finland ? Summary

    By J. Hartikainen

    Kemi cardboard mill is founded on the alluvial bed of Kemi river at the north-eastern cost of Botnic Culf in Northern Finland. The alluvium consists of sandy and silty layers underlain by thick medium

    Jan 1, 2010

  • DFI
    Innovative Riverbank Erosion Control Retaining Wall System for the Brazos River

    By Tracy Brettmann, Will Bohlen

    An innovative retaining wall design consisting of tangent drilled shafts with supplementary seal piles was used to limit continuing bank erosion along the Brazos River in Southeast Texas. The riverban

    Jan 1, 2018

  • DFI
    The Effectiveness Of The Monotube Pile Taper At The Highway 280 Pile Uplift Test Site ? Introduction

    By Samuel J. Kosa

    The Monotube is a uniformly tapered high-strength steel shell pile manufactured for friction pile applications. The Monotube pile was developed in the early 1920's in Canton, Ohio. Its first comm

    Jan 1, 1993

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    Resonance Test On Piles - Synopsis

    By Y. Z. Xu

    This paper presents a new dynamic method called Resonant Pile Test (HPT) for evaluating bearing capacity of pile. The basic conception of RPT is given in brief and the measuring system is also introdu

    Jan 1, 2010

  • DFI
    Technical Aspects And Research In Downdrag

    By Jean-Louis Briaud

    The following is a summary of a very recent report prepared at Texas A&M University for the National Cooperative Highway Research Program and entitled "Downdrag on Bitumen Coated Piles". Anytime the

    Jan 1, 1989

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    Practical Soil Nail Wall Design And Constructability Issues

    By Walter G. Kutschke

    Four significant soil nail wall projects in the eastern United States were recently completed with a combined area of 175,000 square feet of finished shotcrete surface. These projects required the us

    Jan 1, 2007

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    Prediction Of Ultimate Bearing Capacity Of Steel Pipe Pile By Wave Equation ? Synopsis

    By R. G. Shen

    The relation curve of strain and acceleration is presented in this paper. The steel pipe pile of 609.6 mm in external diameter driven by IDH-45 diesel motor hammer on the esturial shoal of Yangtze Riv

    Jan 1, 2010

  • DFI
    Some Experience With Large Diameter Caissons ? Synopsis

    By I. H. Wong

    The large diameter caisson foundations and their construction methods for three 50 to 60 storey high buildings in Singapore are described. The caissons are 5 m to 8 m in diameter and 40 m to 100 m dee

    Jan 1, 2010